Jorge Casuso

Joggers and cyclists sweat through their afternoon workouts, two kites soar against a blue sky above the Golden Gate Bridge, and a tourist focuses his camera on Alcatraz Island. A...

In a fitting end to his American road show, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev bathed in the Bay Area`s adulation Monday as he sought improved trade and political relations along the...

Yolanda Arizaga was on the verge of a second nervous breakdown when she walked into an outdoor Pentecostal revival meeting last July. Arizaga, 40, who was born a Roman Catholic,...

Miguel Roque spent much of his early life trying to topple Cuban dictators. As a student in the 1930s, he was part of a clandestine movement to overthrow Gerardo Machado....

Edgar Douglas is the perfect Santa Claus. He`s a husky 64-year-old with dancing eyes, a hearty laugh and a flowing white beard. ''A lot of people look at me and...

Heat had become so scarce recently at the sprawling ABLA Homes public housing complex that it was being rationed-space heaters were passed out to the elderly and disabled while everybody...

The faithful who gathered on a stormy Tuesday night in the small white church in Lake View had turned to the tiny oil painting beneath the altar as a last...

Caetano Veloso Estrangeiro (Elektra Musician) (STAR)(STAR)(STAR)(STAR) The recent trend to cross over into a foreign musical culture has produced artificial hybrids that sound as incongruous as a polka band doing...

The Russian, a burly and hairy man, poured water on the burning granite rocks the size of soccer balls and watched the steam rise from the mouth of the big...

Discussions about the violent death of a student overshadowed reform Thursday as residents somberly voted to elect a local school council at Harper High School where 16-year-old Chester Dunbar was...